Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-09-06
CAMPBELL AT MlLBANk.
An Address in Behalf of tile
Division IF Dak tn.
Solid Argument for he cause---TeIl.
ing Point, from The Statehood
Leader.

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Campbell. Of Yank.on, delivered here
to-day, to an Immense audience, an adj
dress III behalf of the division Of Dako-
ia. The following is a synopsis of his
address:
l am glad to meet YOU 1 have come
here upon invitation OF the clt.z5n of
your county TO speak to you upon the
subject OF division. / am glad & aave
this opportunity of discussing this sub
lect with you. This question OF division
Is a subject which interests in O bust.
ness Way, as we'll as in other ways, ali
citizens of this territory alike. /, as one
of such citizens, am.interested ike your
selves. Pardon this personal reference
which l make in reply to some recent
attacks upon myself. l have no personal
nor special interest In the matter, no,
am l making 1t q business of %canvasslng
the territory or personally sgitating this
subject. Like the rest of you / have my
own personal business to see to. | am
lobliRed to give my time to my owr
regular work. ] could not afford, if ]
wished to, TO make this matter of divi-
sion any special business of mine. I
would not, If J. could. For, unless thi.
subject has enough in it to interest tht
people, unless they or themselves will
look into it and SEQ for themselves the
advantages OF division and also the greaI
penis OF admission rs O whole, no one
man or get OF men will be able to make
them see them. / have at no time during
the ak yeRre' struggle, put myself for
ward. 4 have from time to time without
eny effort OF mine and generally in my
absence, been elected by my fellow citi
zens OF Yankton county to represen!
them In the different phases of this divi.
sion movement. At other times recent,
l have been invited, without any pre-
arrangement on my part, to address ths
people of osher counties on public oc-
GASEOUS.
At such times / have been in the habit
OF speaking out plainly upon the qnes-
tloDs OF the day and when l have &C
spoken 1t has sometimes seemed to hi
the marx, by b sqaIrming and growing
which has followed. The truth alway
hurts the fellow who has t.furnlst" it. ]
i have spoken the PLAIN truth on this sub
jeot OF Dakota end her rights and it has
hnrt some body. But I want it under.
stood that | have no special interest, MOI
am L making any special personal eff
forts on this subject, with any personal
ends IN view. l was placed against my
wishes, by the last convention, In the
Idirection OF this canvass. During the
| canvass personally shsll speak only
at such places as the people invite me
to speak. This is their canvass, moi
niue nor any mans. And / went an.
other thing distinctly understood.
have no greater intereetin this matter
than eacn man before me, and if You and
the people generally are not intereste q
in it | am not fool enough to think that
l or q few others can accomplish any
thing by ourselves. Nor dol ropos
to try. You, the people Of Grant
county, must attend to your own in
terests or nobody will attend to them
for you. / have left my business and
oheerfully accepted .his invitation &c
speak to you because Iknow that every
business and property interest of every
man in Grant county and in Dakota il
going to be seriously affected by the re.
suit OF this vote. If it goes one way
those interests will be seriously and ir.
~retrieyably damaged. If 1t goes the
other way they will be largely and for
all time benefited.
Therefore to-day, AS / have done
hitherto, | speak plainly and tell you
some plain truths, without regard to
where or whom they may hit. My OBJ
iect and only object is the general pub
lilo welfare in which I, like .you. ns one
man, have personal interest. think 1
see . great danger to which that lnteresi
is exposed, If the present system Of ter
ritorial governments is continued much
longer. / think that I can show you
how this can be remedied, ii you wlsf
to REMEDY it. IT, after I present the
matter, You see IL es l do. then you can
take the steps to prevent it or not al
yon think best This you must do 10,
yourselves-no can do it for you. /
cannot, no man or set of men can, DC
conventions, no public meetings, no
RESOLUTIONS nor memorials. can proteo.
your interests for you. You must pro-
teot them yourselves it You wish then
to be protected.
THE COURTS.
The fifth judicial district has twenty
two counties and one large Indian res.
ervation. It is a hundred and fifty
miles long and Fifty in breadth. Il has
over n hundred thousand people. II
IS Is large as Massachusetts,. It has
nine cities with manufactures and I'M
mense end diversified business interests
1t is filled from one end 20 the Other
with an intelligent, enterprising, active
and bnsy people. Yet this immense
country and large population, with all
their growing and diversified interests
are committed to the charge OF one
Judge. The result is that the court can
not do the business. It ia physically
impossible. Clients send their lawyers
hundreds of miles TO get s fnotion or an
order heard and then they have to ostch
the Judge on the wing, like q prairie
chicken. Such an administration OF
government is q farce and q traves ty OF
i~ustice. 1t Is a denial OF justice.
DUE LAWS.
New Hampshire has three hundred
and forty-seyen Thousand people and
Tour hundred representatives in her
lower house. This is for the reason that
theIarger the representation the better
the people are represented and the more
difficult il is to get through aboodle,'
legislation. Boobies and rings cannot
handle four hundred men as easily he
they can f~orty-eight men. Now see the
contrast. Dakota has six hundred
Thousand people-twioe Rs many as New
Hampshire, She has one hundred and
fifty Thousand square miles-seventeen
times as many as New Hampshire. Aud
yet Dakota has ~forty-eioht representa-
tives in her Legislature, while New
Hampshire has four hundred. That is,
New Hampshire has one representative
for every Thousand persons. Dakota
has one representative for every twelve
Thousand persons. The legislature Of